Category: Apps

Upwork recently published a blog titled “10 Powerful Tips for Sailing Through Your To-Do List” which was originally published on the ClickUp blog. The article was written with the intention of helping people manage their to-do lists, which seem to be ceaseless in today’s modern society. There are several different ways to manage your to-do list.

The first necessary action for managing a to-do list is to write everything down in one place. It is impossible to remember everything you have to do if you don’t get organized by writing the tasks down. It happens because of an effect called the Zeigernik Effect which effectively causes your mind to continue to run through the necessary items and to-dos constantly. It prevents you from focusing on the task at hand because your mind keeps focusing on all the tasks that are incomplete. There is an easy solution to this problem. Simply write all of the tasks down on a single sheet of paper or a single app. This allows your brain to focus on the task you are currently working on.

It is also important to create your list before the day begins. By having your list ready to go as soon as you reach your desk in the morning, you are able to work on the most important thing first. Most people have the highest energy levels and focus in the early morning. When you get your to-do’s prepared the night before, you can decide your priorities instead of wasting your time in the morning.

One of the biggest tips to accomplishing everything on your to-do list is to put it all in one place. Often people have to-dos over a series of different platforms from email to paper notes to apps, they have hundreds of to-dos all over the place. This makes it difficult to keep your tasks organized when it goes across several sources. Some to-dos will eventually slip through the cracks. It may even cause severe stress because it can be time-consuming and stressful to try to check multiple sources all the time. The easy solution is simply using a to-do list tool that can keep all of your tasks in one place.